6 min read ⌚ Nothing new on the program today: once again, we talk about coaching and mentoring. Or, rather, the necessity of it. However, this time we’ll leave the subject where it’s most safe: in the hands of a surgeon, Atul Gawande. Unsurprisingly, he’s pretty precise and straightforward: Want to get great at something?” he […]
6 min read ⌚ Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government Hey, remember when we told you that the Ancient Greeks believed democracy to be the second worst way to organize a country? And, then, when we took, with Condoleezza Rice, the very opposing view, according to which it is humanity’s best way to counter totalitarianism. […]
6 min read ⌚ “I’m no expert” shouldn’t be an excuse to avoid tackling a big problem. On the contrary – it should be a stimulus. Because, Tapiwa Chiwewe says in an inspirational 2017 TED Talk, “You Don’t Have to Be an Expert to Solve Big Problems.” Who Should Read “You Don’t Have to Be an […]
5 min read ⌚ Risk in the Twenty-First Century Over the course of thousands of years, people did everything in their power to minimize the risks. Consciously or unconsciously, we strive to create a better living space, in which we can then indulge in leisure activities. To do so, you have to take every potential financial […]
6 min read ⌚ In “Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine,” Gail Honeyman unravels why you should never allow your past to define your present. And, even less, your future. Who Should Read “Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine”? And Why? Roy Orbison would say – only the lonely. Because, after all – especially if you trust the […]
4 min read ⌚ Ever since the Stone Age, people used their craftiness to build various tools to help them in the struggle for survival. From a genetic standpoint, the urge within a human-mind has always been the main trigger which prompts us to take action and grow. In the modern age, we failed to allocate […]
5 min read ⌚ Published in 1920, “This Side of Paradise” is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. And, to quote an early review, it is a great study “of the contemporary American in adolescence and young manhood.” The fascinating thing: It seems that, even a century later, not that much has changed for a twenty-year-old […]
6 min read ⌚ “The Gulag Archipelago.” A strange title, won’t you say? And yet – one that shook the world to its very core when it was first published a few days after the Christmas of 1973 in Paris. And some six weeks before its author, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, was exiled from the Soviet Union. So, […]
6 min read ⌚ F. Scott Fitzgerald considered “Tender Is the Night” to be his best novel. It was the last he managed to finish. And it is certainly one of the greatest books you’ll ever read! Who Should Read “Tender Is the Night”? And Why? You’ll find “Tender Is the Night” in Boxall’s “1001 Books You […]
6 min read ⌚ Boy, how much they adored alliteration an age ago! And though Dickens might have had a great run from “Pickwick Papers” through “Nicholas Nickleby” to “A Christmas Carol,” we kind of feel that Jane Austen really mastered the art of alliterative titles before Dickens uttered her first word. Because before “Pride and […]
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